Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread

[brian green]

Just home after battling through the fog.   There are people around where I sit who actually think the inclusion of Heskey is a good thing.   But he wins the ball in the air for us they bleat in unison.   No he doesn't.   In the first place he only deflects the ball and at best create the possibility that Bent or A N Other might be arsed to chase it but what he really does is act as a great big hoof ball magnet so that bladdering the ball high wide and anywhere is legitimized.

We never gave them a minute of anxiety until Ireland and N'Zogbia came on with 13 minutes of the game left.

We were a beaten side before we went on the pitch.   You would have thought that we were Saltley Gasworks XI and they were Barcelona.

Very depressed.   Let's just volunteer to join the Championship and not have to suffer any more of this.

[PaulWinch again]

Just home after battling through the fog.   There are people around where I sit who actually think the inclusion of Heskey is a good thing.   But he wins the ball in the air for us they bleat in unison.   No he doesn't.   In the first place he only deflects the ball and at best create the possibility that Bent or A N Other might be arsed to chase it but what he really does is act as a great big hoof ball magnet so that bladdering the ball high wide and anywhere is legitimized.

We never gave them a minute of anxiety until Ireland and N'Zogbia came on with 13 minutes of the game left.

We were a beaten side before we went on the pitch.   You would have thought that we were Saltley Gasworks XI and they were Barcelona.

Very depressed.   Let's just volunteer to join the Championship and not have to suffer any more of this.

Depressing isn't it?

[MarkM]

Another home match without a win.

Frustrated, pissed off, annoyed and embarrassed. Just a few words to describe how I feel at the moment.

Fair play to the streaker though, in comparison to our manager he had the balls to try and be entertaining!

[saunders_heroes]

What's happened to Mark Albrighton? When he first broke onto the scene he was like a breath of fresh air with a cross to die for. For most of this 12 months though he's been like a little boy lost. Today he was a complete and utter waste of space. I lost count how many times he lost the ball. Dreadful performance.

[Stu]

McLeish's thoughts on the game from Pravda.

"Everton was good inspiration for us. We played very similar. Unfortunately for us we let one in and didn't get luck at the other end that Everton got on the night. "

He's putting it all down to bad luck.

[Legion]

At least I sort of met DC5 and villajk when they visited Legion. Well I saw them and after they had gone Legion told me who they were.

Ahaha, so that was you.  Nice to sort of meet you!

Same to both of you. I was the one in the silly hat and brown furry coat in an attempt to stay warm. I can't remember if Legion had both his bodyguards there when you visited or if the part-timer Mr RedSox had already left.

There were two of you.

PWS was the tall, thin one on my RHS (your LHS). I have no idea who the other one present was.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

McLeish's thoughts on the game from Pravda.

"Everton was good inspiration for us. We played very similar. Unfortunately for us we let one in and didn't get luck at the other end that Everton got on the night. "

He's putting it all down to bad luck.

I think he's genuinely struggling to find new excuses now, he's really starting to sound desperate.

[PaulWinch again]

McLeish's thoughts on the game from Pravda.

"Everton was good inspiration for us. We played very similar. Unfortunately for us we let one in and didn't get luck at the other end that Everton got on the night. "

He's putting it all down to bad luck.

Insanity, genuinely completely delusional.

[villajk]

I can see why he set us up like he did and Heskey really put a shift in but after the encouraging signs over the last few weeks, I was hoping we'd play to our strengths rather than trying to nullify Man City's. Looking at Man City's record, if you can shut the up for the first 25 minutes, you're in with a chance. Today, despite a couple of near scares, I thought the defence looked the best it's looked for a long time, although it could be argued with Petrov and Gardner playing so deep, we had 6 across the back line.

Where we failed today, apart from Dunne going missing for the goal, was any real threat up front. As a few mentioned on the Match thread, we really should have introduced Ireland and N'Zogbia immediately after they scored and played to OUR strengths. In the end we were unlucky not to equalise, Carlos really should have buried that header and Bent his shot. Hart did very well but in a game with so few opportunities, he really needs to be more clinical.

Hopefully in the next four games we'll get back to playing to our strengths and if the players show the same level of commitment as they showed today and they'll need to, I really can see us picking up a few, long overdue wins.

That's more or less my take on things. 

[Des Little]

Man of the Match by a metric mile:

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/12022012/8/photo/streaker-invades-pitch.html

[PeterWithesShin]

Some random stranger who attached himself to us.

Is my reply to Legion's post further up.

[villajk]

At least I sort of met DC5 and villajk when they visited Legion. Well I saw them and after they had gone Legion told me who they were.

Ahaha, so that was you.  Nice to sort of meet you!

Same to both of you. I was the one in the silly hat and brown furry coat in an attempt to stay warm. I can't remember if Legion had both his bodyguards there when you visited or if the part-timer Mr RedSox had already left.

There were two of you.

PWS was the tall, thin one on my RHS (your LHS). I have no idea who the other one present was.

Did he pay you to say that?

[PeterWithesShin]

At least I sort of met DC5 and villajk when they visited Legion. Well I saw them and after they had gone Legion told me who they were.

Ahaha, so that was you.  Nice to sort of meet you!

Same to both of you. I was the one in the silly hat and brown furry coat in an attempt to stay warm. I can't remember if Legion had both his bodyguards there when you visited or if the part-timer Mr RedSox had already left.

There were two of you.

PWS was the tall, thin one on my RHS (your LHS). I have no idea who the other one present was.

Did he pay you to say that?

I paid him to say I was the handsome one. I want my money back!

[Legion]

Probably also banned from VP.

[wombat]

You can't blame the streaker for his thought processes.

a) I fancy streaking
b) It will get me banned from watching this negative cock fartery for a good while...

win win for your streaker, needs to work on his cartwheel though! MOTM 7.